EVENT: Photographer Julia Calfee (Inside The Chelsea Hotel) and writer Ed Hamilton (Legends of the Chelsea Hotel) join forces tonight in an event aptly titled “The Chelsea Hotel in Words and Pictures.” Expect a slideshow, discussion, and reading...and you'll probably get some inside scoops about what's going on inside the hotel these days. 7 p.m. // McNally Robinson Bookstore [52 Prince St] // Free MUSIC: George Stanford, What Made Milwaukee Famous, The Brakes and Carney......

For nearly a year now the Hotel Chelsea residents have been living under the new management of BD Hotels -- and not one has been happy about it. Last summer we checked in with long time manager Stanley Bard (who BD ousted from his position) as well as some of those who call the hotel home...and spirits were low all around. While the hotel doesn't yet look like our imagined rendering (pictured), changes have taken......